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1) Allegiant
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English
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"The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered--fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she left...
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English
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"Two criminal empires together control all of New England. Until a beautiful woman comes between the Irish and the Italians, launching a war that will see them kill each other, destroy an alliance, and set a city on fire. Danny Ryan yearns for a more 'legit' life and a place in the sun. But as the bloody conflict stacks body on body and brother turns against brother, Danny has to rise above himself. To save the friends he loves like family and the...
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Series
Lumatere chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
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Froi and his companions travel through Charyn to find Quintana and build an army to secure her unborn child's right to rule, an effort that culminates in an ultimate showdown with Isaboe of Lumatere.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sol and Liz are a couple on the cusp. He's a professional cyclist in the Tour de France, a workhorse but not yet a star. She's a geneticist on the brink of a major discovery, either that or a loss of funding. They've just welcomed their first child into the world, and their bright future lies just before them--if only they can reach out and grab it. But as Liz's research slows, as Sol starts doping, their dreams grow murkier and the risks graver....
5) The son
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part
unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, this is
a novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American
West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious
family as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim.
Spring, 1849. Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a
marauding band of Comanches takes him captive. Brave and clever,...
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Series
The Testing trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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"The United Commonwealth wants to eliminate the rebel alliance fighting to destroy The Testing for good. Cia is ready to lead the charge, but will her lethal classmates follow her into battle?"--
7) Six of crows
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English
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A convict with a thirst for revenge. A sharpshooter who can't walk away from a wager. A runaway with a privileged past. A spy known as the Wraith. A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums. A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes. Kaz Brekker and his crew are the only ones who might stand between the world and destruction - if they don't kill each other first.
8) Blowback
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Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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US President Keegan Barrett has swept into office on his success as Director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with deadly consequences. Barrett personally orders Special Agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel to execute his plan, but their loyalties are divided. The CIA serves at the pleasure of the president, yet they've sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign...
9) Loyalty
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Language
English
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Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome lemon grower toiling on the estate of a baron. He dreams of owning his own grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambition. Determined to secure a better future, Franco will do anything to prove his loyalty to the baron. But when the baron asks him to kidnap a little boy named Dante, Franco makes a decision that will change his life--and even the history of Sicily--forever.
Sicily, 1810. Franco Fiorvanti...
10) Little Dorrit
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Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xii, 811 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Little Dorrit", originally serialized between 1855 and 1857, satirizes the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. This popular novel introduces a rich and memorable array of characters trying to navigate an often hostile capital symbolised by the Marshalsea gaol, where Dickens' own father had been imprisoned. This is a scathing social and political satire within a heart-warming story of love and devotion...Based on the world-famous...
11) The witch hunter
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Series
Witch hunter (Virginia Boecker) volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Elizabeth Grey doesn't look dangerous. A tiny, blonde, wisp of a girl shouldn't know how to poison a wizard and make it look like an accident. Or take out ten necromancers with a single sword and a bag of salt. Or kill a man using only her thumb. But things are not always as they appear. Elizabeth is one of the best witch hunters in Anglia and a member of the king's elite guard, devoted to rooting out witchcraft and bringing those...
Author
Series
Goddess girls. Main series volume 7
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Aladdin pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's time for the annual Olympic Games, and the four goddessgirls are not happy! It's boys only - and the girls at MOA are not pleased. Led by Artemis, Athena, Persphone and Aphrodite, the ladies of Mount Olympus hatch a plan to get Zeus to open up the games to everyone. Will they succeed - or end up watching from the sidelines again?" -Publisher
Author
Publisher
ZACE
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
454 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In one of the most beautiful corners of England something very ugly is about to take place. There's a killer on the loose in the Lake District hills, and the calm of an English summer is shattered. For the newly qualified Crime Scene Investigator Grace McColl, it's both the start of a nightmare and the chance to prove herself after a mistake that cost a life. For Detective Constable Nick Weston, recently transferred from London, it's an opportunity...
Author
Series
Nevermoor volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
525 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Morrigan Crow is now a proud scholar in the elite Wundrous Society, but must prove that she belongs in the Society, while battling a new evil"--
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"Three grown siblings confront their father's role in their mother's disappearance in this arresting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Defending Jacob. Jane Larkin disappeared without a trace in November 1976. When ten-year-old Miranda arrives home from school that autumn afternoon, finding her mother's pocketbook in its usual spot in the front hall, she assumes her mother will be back any minute. But as the hours tick by, alone...
16) Embassytown
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Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she is torn by competing loyalties when hostilities erupt between humans and aliens
17) Tiger honor
Author
Series
Thousand worlds volume 2
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old nonbinary tiger spirit Sebin must decide where their loyalties lie when their traitorous uncle hijacks the battle cruiser that happens to be Sebin's first assignment in the Cadet Program.
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